Hillary shocker: Who needs Elizabeth Warren? Clinton unleashes inner liberal, media freaks out HROOM

HILLARY CLINTON ROOM.

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Hillary Clinton’s campaign rollout so far has taken many people by surprise. All the silly folderol about emails and her unwillingness to talk to the press aside, what seems to have many reeling is the list of rather shockingly liberal agenda items she’s announced and the decidedly populist approach she’s taken to solving them. Apparently most observers thought she would run as if it were 1992 and the long-disbanded Democratic Leadership Council was in its heyday. But you have to admit that even by comparison to her run in 2008, she it taking a much more aggressively progressive stance on a number of issues from immigration to criminal justice reform to voting rights that just a short while ago would have been seen to be dangerous ground for a Democratic candidate for president.

For decades Democrats tried to finesse thorny racial issues (which is what many of those issues named above subconsciously relate to) while still being seen as the party friendly to racial minorities. It hasn’t bought them a white Southern vote in a national election in decades. It was always a fool’s errand but it took the victory of an African American president to finally show the party how to win without them.

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